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President Trump wants to engage Russia and China in nuclear arms control negotiations. Calling denuclearization “a big aim,” Trump told reporters, “Russia’s willing to do it, and I think China is going to be willing to do it too.” China rejected entering nuclear arms control negotiations two days after this report.

On Monday, President Putin offered to extend the New START Treaty for one year if the U.S. agrees to do the same. It’s a good idea because the New START Treaty, the only nuclear weapons limitation agreement still in force, expires Feb. 5, 2026.

First, let’s forget the word denuclearization because I’m not sure anyone knows what that means. We should be talking about restarting negotiations to control and hopefully reduce the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S., Russia and at some point, China.

I participated in negotiations to reduce, limit and control biological, chemical, conventional and nuclear........

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